Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flags dri, cups, pppd

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sunday 20 January 2013 10:54:55 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
> Ben de Groot schrieb:
> > On 20 January 2013 23:22, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
> >> Andreas K. Huettel schrieb:
> >>>> * move setting USE=dri from default/linux/make.defaults to
> >>>> targets/desktop/make.defaults
> >>
> >> I must say that I am unhappy about this. The packages in question should
> >> not be built with dri disabled unless you really *really* know what you
> >> are doing.
> >
> > It seems to me this is an obvious case where sane useflag defaults
> > need to be set by the packages involved. We no longer need to rely on
> > global profiles for this.
>
> Yes, I mentioned this in another post already. We can use EAPI=1 IUSE
> defaults instead. But this will not change any systems so I fail to see
> the point behind this. This will only move clutter from profiles into
> ebuilds.

where it should have been in the first place.  if it's a package-specific issue, 
then it belongs in the package.
-mike